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I recently heard about a short story by a French author about a map making-obsessed country who covered their whole country with a 1:1 scale map. For years I've
by phaedrus 8y ago
I recently heard about a short story by a French author about a map making-obsessed country who covered their whole country with a 1:1 scale map. For years I've had the idea for an indie game about trying make it from one side of the USA to the other with a crappy car and little money - basically a modern-day reimagining of Oregon Trail. However a challenge would be rendering interesting buildings and cities. So something I thought about is what if the game also uses the idea of the whole country having a 1:1 street atlas map draped over everything? You could give hints of there being buildings and other interesting things peeking through rips in the map, while most of the modeling / graphics is really just open street map data textured over a height map.
- kitsy 8y ago"On Exactitude in Science" is a one-paragraph story written Jorge Luis Borges. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_Exactitude_in_Science https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_Exactitude_in_Science
- ilyagr 8y agoNore also that Borges is Argentinian, not French.
- dredmorbius 8y agoArgentina is a mapping of France ;-)
- specializeded 8y agoItaly, che!
- 2bitencryption 8y agoThere's a game similar to what you're describing, except in the USSR instead of the USA: https://store.steampowered.com/app/446020/Jalopy/ https://store.steampowered.com/app/446020/Jalopy/
- phaedrus 8y agoI'll have to try this.
- colanderman 8y agoWow, that's like My Summer Car [1] but with a goal. [1] http://www.amistech.com/msc/ http://www.amistech.com/msc/